In English and Irish printed in parallel columns except for preliminary acts and preface which are in Irish only and are printed in roman type; Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, and the Psalter and all following up to the Thirty-nine Articles in Irish only and printed in Irish characters

Added title page in English: The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. London : Printed by E. Everingham ..

Date from colophon

Signatures: Ap4s, a-fp2s, B-Zp4s, Aa-Zzp4s, Aaa-Rrrp4s

Title pages have double rule frame borders; text printed in double columns

Irish text printed in Joseph Moxon's Irish type cut in 1680, according to T.B. Reed the only Irish fount in England until 1800; Robert Everingham had used this type for the second edition of William Daniel's Irish translation of the New Testament in 1681

Initials

Woodcut of royal arms at head of edict of Anne, 1692, on leaf Ooo3 recto

The elements of the Irish language: p. [526]-[528]

Colophon: London, Printed by Eleanor Everingham, at the Seven Stars in Ave-Mary-Lane, A.D. 1712

Edited by John Richardson

Translated by William Daniel

ESTC

Darlow & Moule

DWD

HM

Armorial bookplate of Sr. Alexr. Macdonald Bart. on front pastedown

Inscription on title page: Hector McKinnon's Anno 1707 [sic]. Inscription on front free endpaper: Ex Libris Finelai Maclennan ex done R: A: J. 1729 Hic exulo. Stamp of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on front free endpaper

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